Formatting in the camera is a quick and easy way to erase the card. That's all.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Jostein Øksne <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for veering off here, but I'm curious... Is there a well funded > reason for formatting the memory card every so often? > I know Macs leave a bit of crud in the file system whenever they get the > chance, but surely the camera would ignore that? > I don't think I have formatted a memory card in ten years, operating systems > aside... > Jostein > > Den 17. august 2016 03.52.02 CEST, skrev Rick Womer <[email protected]>: >>Paul, that info seems to reside on the card, as it is lost when the >>card is formatted in the camera (at least with Yosemite here). >>http://photo.net/photos/RickW >> >> >>On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> >>wrote: >>> You can choose what devices you wish to auto load from in Photo >>preferences. At least that's true in El Capitan and with the latest >>versions of Photo. >>> >>> Paul via phone >>> >>>> On Aug 16, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> >>wrote: >>>> >>>> For the first time since I installed Yosemite on it several months >>>> ago, I'm using my MacBook Pro for photo editing. (My home computer >>is >>>> still running 10.6.8). >>>> >>>> Whenever I put an SD card in the slot, Yosemite launches Photo, and >>>> one has to quit Photo before one can start importing into Lightroom. >>>> >>>> A Google search reveals widespread frustration with this; and the >>>> closest thing to a solution seems to be booting into Recovery Mode, >>>> entering some cyber-stuff into Terminal, and rebooting normally. >>>> However, this disables any automatic launching of anything (some of >>>> which is useful, such as having an incoming pdf launch Preview). >>Also, >>>> this kludge apparently doesn't work with El Capitan. >>>> >>>> Anybody out there have a fix? >>>> >>>> Rick >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>and follow the directions. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>and follow the directions. > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
